Can’t wait to see how much stuff Deodato swipes from other artists this time. The art team is joined by Mark Bernardo to close out this series. Who’s coming to defeat these…
Tag: Black Tarantula
ASM 436
Will we really learn who’s under those masks? I don’t remember. I bought this issue, even though most months I was only buying Adjectiveless at this point, just to see who those…
ASM 435
Let’s see how Peter loses his Ricochet identity. We open on the hilariously named Bloodscream and Roughhouse, 2 jobbers from Wolverine comics, who’ve been released from prison. One of them has noticed…
ASM 434
This striking cover by Mark Buckingham is the egregious swipe of Joe Bennett from SMU 18 I caught last time we were in this period. I always liked this cover, it stuck…
ASM 432
I forgot to mention last post that awful font is back. They love it. Strangely, Romita, Jr. is here to draw Joe Bennett’s regular title. Romita’s handling parts 2 & 3 of…
ASM 428
Skroce’s Spider-Man improved dramatically during this story. He got more sleek and less lumpy looking. The other characters did, too, to varying degrees. Simplifying was a good idea. We seem to have…
ASM 427
Shades of ASM 55. Speaking of, for some reason, they got Romita, Sr. to do a version on the fold out: Kinda jarring, really. They’re still in the era of a recap…
ASM 424
Yes, what a… mysterious character. DOES Spider-Man know Elektra? I’m not so sure. She’s so mysterious she’s named on page 1: Elektra already feels out of character. Joe Bennett still on the…
ASM 420
Steve Skroce made his name on X-Man, a comic about a young Cable from an alternate reality hanging out on the prime Marvel Earth, so I guess they felt this needed to…
ASM 419
Almost illegible cover copy is an unfortunate hallmark of the period. The BLACK Tarantula. Not The Tarantula. That’s another guy. Or is it? That’s right, it’s time for YET ANOTHER mystery man!…